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Three days later, at a lush West Virginia resort where congressional Republicans were holding their annual retreat, they heard the same news. G.O.P. strategists told the lawmakers that voter rage over Enron is becoming personal, with people's fears about their own retirement exceeding their appetite for campaign reform and their anger at what the now bankrupt company did. "Many employees looked at what happened to Enron, and it scares them to death," says Ohio Congressman John Boehner, the House Republicans' point man on pension issues. This is why the biggest news out of the retreat was the package...
...matter how many times tearful widows accuse him of protecting the airlines, Feinberg does not blush. A lawyer with decades of experience in the messy art of compromise (Feinberg was special master for the $180 million distributed to veterans exposed to Agent Orange), he is accustomed to rage. "On Tuesday I get whacked for this or that in New Jersey. The next day it's New York. It goes with the job." But he rejects the theory that greed is a factor. "People have had a loved one wrenched from them suddenly, without warning, and we are only five months...
Then normality broke out. By January, with the smoke clearing in Afghanistan, cable news was back to hockey-rage trials, Mike Tyson-biting scandals and the Sept. 10-era question, How do you grab viewers on slow news days? Fox, it turned out, had the most successful answer. Last month, for the first time, the network outdrew CNN in total-day viewers, despite being available in 9 million fewer homes. On the whole, its viewership was up 109% over the year (CNN countered that because its own audience grew 51% over the same period, Fox's gains did not come...
...skew toward older viewers--CNN's median age is 59, to Fox's 56 and MSNBC's 55). News events can change the business again in an instant, of course, but Fox's gains mean one thing: whether the shooting war heats up or cools down, this battle will rage...
...matter how many times tearful widows accuse him of protecting the airlines, Feinberg does not blush. A lawyer with decades of experience in the messy art of compromise (Feinberg was special master for the $180 million distributed to veterans exposed to Agent Orange), he is accustomed to rage. "On Tuesday I get whacked for this or that in New Jersey. The next day it's New York. It goes with the job." But he rejects the theory that greed is a factor. "People have had a loved one wrenched from them suddenly, without warning, and we are only five months...